From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 16:32:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D0037B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:32:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C1243F85 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:32:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C076351A6B; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:02:30 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:02:30 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: james Message-ID: <20030326003230.GA2959@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030324231505.GW56271@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-35.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LVM / Vinum X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD user questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 00:32:37 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 00:32:37 -0000 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 25 March 2003 at 8:40:26 +0000, james wrote: > Hi Greg > > Thanks for the reply, appreciate it! > > On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >>> I'm very used to using LVM on Linux, AIX, HP/UX etc, and I want to be able >>> to similar stuff on fbsd. I've had a play with Vinum, and I'm just >>> wondering if there are any other alternatives? >> >> There's also RAIDFrame. > > I'll look into that, but will stick to Vinum for now. I actually work for > Veritas so it's a shame VM isn't on freebsd :) What important VxVM functionality is missing in Vinum? >>> Also, is it possible to extend / shrink volumes once they have been >>> created? >> >> Yes. Add or remove subdisks to/from a plex. > > Is this also true for striped volumes? It seems this is not possible > from the documentation I've found on the web, but I know that > documentation can be out of date. No, this is still not possible. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+gPUeIubykFB6QiMRAkW0AJ9YeZUhfW/rCBvDrOC3WFdv6Q8/yQCfQvNm gm0H7D9TarArnXht8f9Hz3E= =eD2B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--